Books like بداية ونهاية by نجيب محفوظ

Young protagonist loses confidence in drawing but gains inspiration from his sister, symbolizing the importance of self-assurance and creativity in children's literature.

A magical adventure for children where two brothers are captured by an evil magician in the woods, forcing Alice to seek help from her magical brothers in a fantastical tale of sibling bonds and magic.

Two young detectives in Switzerland chase a dog bank robber who is actually a Professor Sardine, a clever sleuth in the style of Professor Challenger.

A poor Cairo father represents God and his sons, Jesus, Mohammed and other profits (from Christian Science Monitor 9/06/2006)

A musical adventure about three brothers, a bully, and a group of schoolchildren who perform Brundibár, a Czech opera, to save their mother from Nazi concentration camp Terezin in 1943.

A young girl's quest for recognition and acceptance as the 'Best Kid in the World'.

An 8-year-old girl and her older brother move to Virginia to build houses for the disadvantaged.

Palace Walk (Arabic: بين القصرين, romanized: Bayn al-Quṣrayn, lit. 'Between Two Palaces') is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into English by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny, and then published by Doubleday (publisher) in 1990. The book's Arabic title translates into 'between two palaces'. The setting of the novel is Cairo around the time period of World War I. It begins in 1917, during World War I, and ends in 1919, the year of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The novel is written in a social realist style and reflects the social and political setting of Egypt in during 1917 to 1919. ---------- Contained in: [The Cairo trilogy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599697W)

A tale of the petticoats between sisters and the haunting secrets of the dollager family, this novel will keep you on the edge of your seat with its psychological tension and spine-tingling plot twists.

Cuatro hombres recalados en la pensión Miramar desterrados por una realidad social que los ha convertido en exiliados en su propio país. La rivalidad por conseguir los favores de Zohra Salama, una joven entre cándida y sugerente, crea una atmósfera de tensión enfermiza, donde la frustración y el sentimiento de fracaso afloran hasta desnudar el interior herido de cada uno.

Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with her baby son, Jose. Brought up struggling with his dual identity, Jose clings to the hope of returning to his father's country when he is eighteen. He is ill-prepared to plunge headfirst into a world where the fear of tyrants and dictators is nothing compared to the fear of 'what will people say'. And with a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, will his father's country welcome him? The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.